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  • Raped, Kidnapped and Silenced

    06/13/2005 10:20:27 PM PDT · by neverdem · 19 replies · 1,540+ views
    NY Times ^ | June 14, 2005 | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
    No wonder the Pakistan government can't catch Osama bin Laden. It is too busy harassing, detaining - and now kidnapping - a gang-rape victim for daring to protest and for planning a visit to the United States. Last fall I wrote about Mukhtaran Bibi, a woman who was sentenced by a tribal council in Pakistan to be gang-raped because of an infraction supposedly committed by her brother. Four men raped Ms. Mukhtaran, then village leaders forced her to walk home nearly naked in front of a jeering crowd of 300. Ms. Mukhtaran was supposed to have committed suicide. Instead, with...